Wannabe Maven maven

I’ve recently been rewriting some of the more archaic build processes at work to use Maven. I’m not sure I prefer it to Ant—in fact, I’m sure I don’t—but I’ll take it any day over make. Maven definitely has its… let’s call them idiosyncrasies… which are occasionally hard to figure out, especially because its error reporting is less than stellar; a lot of the time even mvn -X is of no use. I think I’m getting the hang of it, though.